Cleaning device for slicing-machine knives



March 25, 1930. I p sw s 1,751,891

CLEANING DEVICE FOR SLICING MACHINE KNIVES Filed' Jan. 4, 1926 INVENTOR PE TE S/l E TJL'A/ Patented Mar. 25, 1930 l UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PETER SIVERTSEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLEANING DEVICE FOR SLICING-MACHINE KNIVES Application filed January 4, 1926. Serial No. 79,174.

This invention relates to cleaning devices Waste by separating the parts and bending and has more special reference to a device back the wall D. In order to keep the wall for cleaning the knives of slicing machines. D in place, the upstanding portion or post E comprehensively stated, the invention conof the angle iron is arranged to abut against sists of a scraper adapted to engage the rothe wall D and the extended portion F of ta'ry knife of a slicing machine and a recepthe receptacle A. The upper edge of the retacle for receiving the material removed ceptacle A is extended to form an inclined from the knife by the scraper. wing G to afford a mounting block H which The object of the invention is to provide is secured to the wing G by screw G. One

10 a comparatively simple structure which can end of this block is bevelled at J to form a be quickly removed from the slicing machine socket K adjacent to the wing G to receive and which will effectually free the knife of one edge of the scraper L, the bevel serving accumulated waste. to provide sufiicient clearance so that the While one embodiment of the invention is scraper may be flexed in the socket to efiec- 5 disclosed in the accompanying drawing it is tively bear on the knife N to be cleaned. The to be understood that this embodiment scraper blade preferably consists of somemerely serves as an illustration of the underwhat flexible material and is pressed against lying principles of the invention so that they the knife N by a plurality of screws K, the may be readily comprehended by those latter being spaced from the portion of the Z0 skilled in the art and are not intended as socket seating one edge of the scraping blade limiting the invention to the specific form so that a slight leverage will be afforded to disclosed therein. exert the requisite pressure on the knife N.

In said drawing: It is claimed: Fig. 1 is an elevation of the invention used 1. A cleaning device for slicing machines 25 in conjunction with a rotating knife, combining a receptacle having an extended Fig. 2 is an end elevation of Fig. 1, and is portion, a free end located contiguous to the shown partly fragmentary and partly in secextended portion and a supporting post adj ation, cent to the free end and extended portion.

Fig. 3 is a section of Fig. 1 on the line 2. A cleaning device for a slicing machine 30 3-3, and comprising a block having a recess, a scraper 30 Fig. 4 is a section of Fig. 2 on the line 44. blade having one edge resting in the recess Continuing now by way of amore detailed and means to tilt the blade about the edge description, a waste receptacle A is preferresting in the recess. ably formed from sheet metal and is bent 3. A cleaning device for slicing machines,

35 in the manner shown more particularly in combiningasupport, a scraper adjustably se- Fig. 3, one face of the receptacle being excured to the support, and a receptacle located tended at F to provide adequate support for below the scraper in such a position that mathe receptacle in the manner to be described. terial removed by the scraper will fall into The lower end of the extension piece is cut the receptacle, and having the support at- 40 away at A to receive the foot B of a suptached to its upper end.

porting bracket or angle iron, the foot B be- 4. A cleaning device for slicing machines,

ing secured to the slicing machine by screws combining a support, having a recess, a

C or other equivalent means. The vertical scraper tiltably mounted in said recess,

edge of the wall D which is brought back in means for adjusting said scraper, and a rethe bending operation to a position near the ceptacle located below the scraper in such extension piece F is left free although, of position that the material removed by the course, the edge might, if desired, be secured scraper will fall into the receptacle and havto the front wall of the receptacle A although ing the scraper support attached to it.

the free arrangement is preferred as permit- 5. A cleaning device for slicing machines ting the receptacle to be freed of accumulated combining a block having a recess, a scraper comprising a flat plate having one edge fulcrumed in the recess, and means to tilt the scraper relatively to the block about the fulcrum edge.

Signed at the city of New York in the county of New York, and State of New York, this 19thday of November, 1925. g I

, PETER SIVERTSEN. 

